No determination yet in fatal Rockland pedestrian crash

ROCKLAND - Police have not yet decided whether to charge or cite a Brockton man who was behind the wheel of a car that hit and killed a women in a Rockland intersection four days before Christmas.

Lt. Nicholas Zeoli of the Rockland Police Department said the driver of the car has been "fully cooperative" with the department’s investigation into the Dec. 21 crash that killed Ellen K. Partridge, a 62-year-old cashier at the Stop & Shop supermarket in Abington. He said the department is still waiting on the results of an analysis by the State Police crash reconstruction team.

"Once those come in, we'll have to make a determination," he said.

Police say that Partridge, a longtime Rockland resident, was walking across the intersection of North Avenue and Union Street about 5:30 p.m. Dec. 21 when she was hit by a Ford sedan driven by a 30-year-old Brockton man. Partridge was seriously injured and was taken by ambulance to South Shore Hospital, where she later died.

Police said the driver stayed at the scene and later went to the police station for questioning. The car is a delivery vehicle for a medication delivery service, but it is unclear if the driver was working at the time of the crash.

Partridge was born in Quincy but had lived in Rockland since she was a small child, graduating from Rockland High School in 1972, according to her obituary. She was a "master at crochet" and was known to bring her bag of yarn and latest crochet project with her wherever she went.

"Ellen was a friendly, generous soul and always had a smile or a kind word for everyone," the obituary read.